To think that 11 stone isn't that heavy unless you're really short?

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When I was losing weight a few years ago I went down from 14 and a half stone to under 13 in the space of 4 weeks. However I then seemed to stick for ages round about the 11 stone mark - my target weight was 8 stone. However o can say that 11 stone felt infinitely different from being in the 14s although I was definitely overweight at this weight.

Anyway shout out and much love to anyone and everyone on a weight loss programme - it's bloody hard !

What is it you don’t understand?

It's only not reliable in that it's far, far too broad a range to be reliable. Or for incredibly muscular men. That's it. The average, non-extremely muscular person is still underweight at a BMI of 19 and over-weight at a BMI of 24, but those are included for outliers.

Most people are at an ideal weight of a BMI around 21 (lower for people of Asian ethnicities). But based on natural body shape, bone density and muscularity that will vary from person to person. As a very muscular woman with large breasts and hips/bum I am still obviously somewhat overweight when my BMI is 23 or over. Though I look clearly underweight if it dips too far below 22. 22.5 is currently ideal for me, though that may push up if I keep building muscle. A few years ago, 21 was my ideal as I wasn't especially muscular and my breasts had shrunk back after finishing breastfeeding. So you get to know your own best weight, but the only women who's ideal weight will be over 25, are incredibly muscular.

I’m 5ft 6in and 11st would be way too heavy for me. 9st is about right for me, around a size 10. Totally depends on your height and build!

I'm 5ft 6 and around that weight now which puts me in the healthy BMI range but towards the top of it. I'm wearing size 10 on the top, 12 on the bottom. clothes, sometimes even an 8 on my top half but I'm carrying too much weight around my middle for my liking. Nurses are always surprised by how much I weigh so hopefully some of it is muscle ;)

Unless you're very tall, 11 stone is quite a high weight. A woman of that weight and 5 foot 6 would no way be a size 10/12 regardless of how she carried her weight - I'd say vanity sizing might have something to do with that. When I was a teen in the UK in the 1990s I weighed 8 and a half stone (at 5 foot 6) and I was a 10. That would probably be equivalent to a size 6 in today's UK sizes.

I'm 5ft 7 and 10 stone and even though rationally I know I'm not, I do feel big at the moment. At my thinnest I was 8 1/2 stone which in hindsight made me look a bit gaunt (and old in my 40s) so ideally I'd like to be somewhere around 9 stone 2ish. Dieting not going my way at the moment and finding weight really hard to shift.

It's within the healthy range for me - I'm 5'8.

I'm 5 foot 7 inches and would definitely be overweight at 11 stone.

The problem is that 11 stone I would probably look reasonable-ish to quite a few other people because we are so used to seeing overweight people. But I know I'd be overweight and would 100% see it and feel it.

It's really quite a difficult question to answer, but yeah, I would imagine unless you're less than 5 foot 2, then 11 stone is massively heavy. I'm 5 foot 5 ish. And 11 stone 3, and a size 14, and I wouldn't class myself as fat or particularly that overweight.

WHOOPS 11 stone ISN'T massively heave unless you're less than 5 ft 2!!!

Ha, yes. First thing I thought of as well.

When I read Riders I was just over 11 stone and Jilly Cooper truly couldn't have made me feel worse about myself. If Tory is supposedly fairly tall, say 5 ft 7, eleven stone isn't even technically overweight at that height.

Oh, the 70s.

HEAVY not heave! Oh FFS MN get an edit button.

11 stone would be way too much on me
I'm 5'5"
Currently 8 stone 7. I look brick like around my trunk at over 9 stone. No boobs. Body fat currently est 20-23%

I'm 6' and nearly 12 stone, I'm fairly slim.

I think it’s the perfect weight

I'm 5'6 and looked a bit pudgy at 11 stone but I'm not athletic, nor do I carry weight well. I'm built like a rectangle with no boobs so look best around 10 stone.

This is nuts. I'm 5'9", and at 11st I'm a size 10 on top, 12 on the bottom and BMI of 22.8. I don't look fashion model slender, but healthy without visible excess fat.
(unlike now at 13 and a half stone).

it's your lack of understanding that appear to be the problem. 11 stone is well within the healthy BMI range for lots of taller women.

I’m 5’6 and I’m just under 11 stone at the moment and I feel very chubby

I am 5'6" . 10 st 12lbs , my well woman check recently said Bmi of 24.9 so ok , but only just.
The thing is, I lost about 3 stone with SW a few years ago and have kept it off.
My 6ft husband has a smaller wrist measuremnt than I have , I really do have a large, solid frame. At this weight I am a size 12 and feel very happy with that. Bmi does give a good idea but isn't the whole story!

Well that would put my bmi at 27.8 so would be overweight for me. As it goes though I was that weight for years and felt great on it, rather than the 37.2 bmi I have now. And I'm not really short either, 5'3 so a little under average but not much

Off topic but OMG WHAAT! I had no idea about this. I just found the cast list online though and I am very unsure - David Tennant as Tony Baddingham?! And I suppose Gabriel Byrne is now a bit long in the tooth to play Declan O'Hara but Aidan Turner seems all wrong too.

11 stone is my ideal weight. I would love to be that again. Even 12 stone.

I looked very slim at 12 stone.

Totally depends on build. I'm 5'4", so probably 'a shorty' by the standards of some [rude] people on here, but if I was 11 stone I'd be huge. Actually, I was 11 stone when I was 9 months pregnant with both my kids, so that shows how much above my normal weight it is. But people who are broader and with larger skeletons can carry more weight and still look good and be healthy. I'd look fat at that weight.

Really? I am quite tall and I find 11 stone way too much. I don’t give a toss about BMI because it’s bullshit. It’s numbers related to each other on a paper. The mirror on the other hand doesn’t lie. If I was 11 stone I would start a diet.